biography

Rosie Fiore was born and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She studied drama at the University of the Witwatersrand and has worked as a writer for theatre, television, magazines, advertising, comedy and the corporate market. She has lived in London since 2000.

She has published several novels to critical acclaim: This Year's Black (Struik 2004), Lame Angel (Struik 2006), Babies in Waiting (Quercus 2012) and Wonder Women (Quercus 2013). After Isabella was published by Allen & Unwin in August 2016, and What She Left in August 2017.

Rosie also writes under the pseudonym Cass Hunter, and her first novel as Cass, The After Wife, will be published by Trapeze in March 2018.

Her television credits include Sesame Street, and her corporate clients have included Getty Images, the BBC, the Maybourne Hotel Group, Lever Faberge, Starbucks, Toyota and many more.

Her play, Through a Glass Darkly, played to sold-out houses at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in Islington in March 2016.